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“There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings, our ocean depths and fringes are full of luminous beings, creatures lit from the inside. And they have, for many centuries, enchanted us, like glowing missionaries of wonder, emissaries of awe.
Is there anything more beautiful than living light?”
― Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
Is there anything more beautiful than living light?”
― Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
“This is how it ends: you just stop.”
― Golden State
― Golden State
“No weights of gold to measure
Only scales of truth and lies
For we are living treasure
Under all our shimmering skies”
― All Our Shimmering Skies
Only scales of truth and lies
For we are living treasure
Under all our shimmering skies”
― All Our Shimmering Skies
“Writing is a forest of faint paths, of dead-ends, hidden pits, unresolved chords, words that won’t rhyme. You can be lost in there for hours. Days, even.”
― Utopia Avenue
― Utopia Avenue
“At the height of our ascent we were middle-aged and then we fell for the rest of our lives, the whole second half. Falling might take just as long, but it was nothing like rising. The whole time you were rising you could not imagine what came next in your particular, unique journey; you could not see around the corner. Whereas falling ended the same way for everyone.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
Gis’s 2024 Year in Books
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